[racktables-users] Re: survey: barcodes versus asset tags
- From: Killsystem <killsystem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:28:08 +0000
Hi Denis,
in short:
"I store values in both "barcode" and "asset tag" columns, they are
different"
The long version:
We you use both barcode and asset tag.
Asset tag is our asset barcode and barcode is mostly the serial number,
mostly because the OEM s/n wasn't searchable.
I think we could dismiss barcode in favor of the s/n attribute when it's
searchable (as you mention it will be in the near future)
The update script shouldn't append barcode to asset tag automatically. The
script should at least ask the user before doing such thing.
Thank you for this great tool.
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:21:58 +0400, Denis Ovsienko <pilot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello, list.
>
> There are two columns for each object: "asset tag" and "barcode". There
> is also a story behind them. Long time ago the initial implementation of
> RackTables had to serve a hardware base, which was accounted by two
> independent systems at once (don't ask me, why). One system used labels
> without a barcode, and another --- labels with barcode. So at that time
> I added two fixed columns into SQL table and that did the trick. Later
> it became obvious, that enterprises normally employ only one asset
> accounting systems, but the columns were already there, and user's data
> also was. So I left things as was.
>
> Now I consider dismissing the "barcode" column in favor of "asset
> tag" this year. There are ways to handle existing data:
>
> 1. Append the contents of "barcode" to "asset tag".
> 2. Create an optional "barcode" attribute and move the "barcode" fixed
> column data there.
> 3. Something else, perhaps.
>
> To make the right decision, it is necessary to know, how you,
> RackTables users, use these columns. Could you choose, which answer
> describes your case best?
>
> - I don't store values in either "barcode" or "asset tag" columns
> - I store 1 value in "barcode" column only
> - I store 1 value in "asset tag" column only
> - I store values in both "barcode" and "asset tag" columns, they are
> different
> - I always store the same value in both "barcode" and "asset tag"
> columns
>
> Thank you in advance.
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